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Enlarge Photo One person who thinks we should spend more is John Glenn, “who 50 years ago Monday became the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth in his Friendship 7 Mercury spacecraft,” as the AP reported. Glenn and others think the U.S. is slowly giving up the strategic and technological lead it has built up […]
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If the space shuttle Atlantis blasts off as scheduled on Friday, it’s over. The 135th shuttle mission will be the final one, and the remaining vehicles will go to museums. (Not including Houston, by the way.) Some people think the shuttle program needs to be phased out before we spend any more money on it […]
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